Voters thumbed down a proposal to get rid of gerrymandering with an independent redistricting commission in 2016. Chuck Parkinson fell 9% short of the signatures…
Tag: redistricting
After the Huron rain, between snack breaks (I haven’t had a corn dog yet, but Kevin let me eat some of his fries), secret whispers…
Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has managed not to screw something up. Monday he issued a reasonable explanation of Dan Ahlers’s anti-gerrymandering redistricting commission initiative… and…
Former Dell Rapids legislator Dan Ahlers wants to do some more legislating… by the people! He’d like us to vote on amending the state constitution…
We Democrats are so nice— —How nice are we?— —We Democrats are so nice that even when we have the majority power to gerrymander Republicans…
Anybody want to take another shot at redistricting reform on the 2020 South Dakota ballot? Let’s get the Terminator to help! Colorado, Missouri, and Michigan…
Senator Al Novstrup needs to learn when not to play his word games. Teaching him that lesson last night was Representative Susan Wismer. At the…
The League of Women Voters invited four area political practitioners—Rep. Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton), Farmers Union president Doug Sombke, longtime legislator and current candidate H. Paul…
Dr. Erin Fouberg, Northern State University professor of geography, offered a useful lecture on redistricting at last night’s gerrymandering forum hosted by the League of…
The League of Women Voters hosted a forum on redistricting last night here in Aberdeen. Along with a detailed speech from NSU political geographer Dr.…